The move by the social-media giant is sure to inflame the growing hostility between the White House and Twitter.
, warning that “any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”growing hostility between the White House and Twitter,
hitherto Trump’s favored mode of communication. After the company began flagging some of his tweets as misleading earlier this week, Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing federal regulators to scrutinize social media companies more closely. In the same tweet about the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, Trump denounced some of the demonstrators as “THUGS.” Twitter allowed the post to remain up “in the public interest” but blocked users from responding to it.Floyd, who was black, died Monday after a white police officer was videotaped kneeling on his neck for several minutes. The incident has sparked outrage and protests across the U.S.
Some stores have been looted, other buildings have been set ablaze and protesters have fired guns into the air. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called in the National Guard.Get all the day's most vital news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning.
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